Mary Shelley’s The Mortal Immortal Plot

Analysis of Mary Shelley’s The Mortal Immortal

This gothic short story by Mary Shelley (1797– 1851), the author of Frankenstein: Or The Modern Prometheus (1818), explores the implications of immortality. In the story, alchemy, or artifice, overrides natural law and makes the impossible dream of immortality possible…. Read More ›